This is the ultimate whaling narrative, as told by the first mate on the Cachalot.
His reputation was made over the publication of The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales (1906); and he also wrote, amongst other books, Idylls of the Sea (1899); Sea-Wrack (1903); The Call of the Deep (1907) and A ...
" RUDYARD KIPLING The Cruise of the Cachalot is the story of a ship--a South Sea whaler--and the men who sailed on her.
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A book which, being based upon personal observation, buttressed by scientific facts and decorated by imagination, is a storehouse of information--an ideal romance of deep sea folk and, as The Saturday Times-Review has said, worth a dozen ...